Single-Nacelle Ships
- Thread starter Herkimer Jitty
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We have the perfect excuse here to argue that most of Voyager's bells and whistles would have been installed next Tuesday. "Caretaker" and "Relativity" both reinforce the idea that the ship sailed out on a three-hour tour, a milk run that was expected to be followed by equipping for a more demanding mission. The same as with NX-01, really...
The second warp core sounds like something they'd only pack if they knew they were going to deep space for a long time. The aeroshuttle might only be carried on certain survey sorties. And so forth. For all we know, the crew count could also drastically vary between mission types.
Timo Saloniemi
The second warp core sounds like something they'd only pack if they knew they were going to deep space for a long time. The aeroshuttle might only be carried on certain survey sorties. And so forth. For all we know, the crew count could also drastically vary between mission types.
Timo Saloniemi
Not having the spare warp core on hand makes sense, given the short mission they were sent out on, but the Aeroshuttle is right there on the underside of the primary hull in every episode.
Now, whether or not it actually worked is another topic...
Now, whether or not it actually worked is another topic...
Maybe they stripped it for parts eventually?
That works better. So, by the time of "Day of Honor", they only had half a warp core left, spare parts-wise.
An aeroshuttle-shaped hole covered by flat plating is there, to be sure. We don't know for sure if that plating is part of the shuttle itself, or some sort of a cover (admittedly with pennant paint).
Some episodes suggest that the ship will have trouble moving at warp unless its outer envelope is intact (say, the ramming attack in "Maneuvers"). So plating over the hole of a missing aeroshuttle might be critically important, too.
We could actually argue that the aeroshuttle berth would need to have cover plating, so that the mothership could operate when the shuttle is detached. Whether NCC-74656 had a shuttle hidden inside that berth (but nonoperational, and eventually stripped for spares) or just an empty space would then be for us to decide...
Timo Saloniemi
I'm personally inclined to believe that the saucer lower vertex berth of a Galaxy class ship was designed to house several things besides a Captain's Yacht, and that the Enterprise never received a Yacht - housing an energy transfer beam there instead, as seen in "Encounter at Farpoint".
The berth beneath Voyager's primary hull is less generic in shape, though, so I'd like to limit its contents to two possibilities only: 1) aeroshuttle and 2) no aeroshuttle...
Or, to vary #2 a little bit, there could have been an unflightworthy aeroshuttle there on NCC-74656. Basically so unflightworthy that it didn't even warrant mention - say, without any engines attached. The non-generic auxiliary might have been constructed apace with the mothership, rather than taken off the shelf, and in this case the construction wasn't quite finished. So all our heroes had was an extra stash of spare parts from which to build the Delta Flier.
Timo Saloniemi
The berth beneath Voyager's primary hull is less generic in shape, though, so I'd like to limit its contents to two possibilities only: 1) aeroshuttle and 2) no aeroshuttle...
Or, to vary #2 a little bit, there could have been an unflightworthy aeroshuttle there on NCC-74656. Basically so unflightworthy that it didn't even warrant mention - say, without any engines attached. The non-generic auxiliary might have been constructed apace with the mothership, rather than taken off the shelf, and in this case the construction wasn't quite finished. So all our heroes had was an extra stash of spare parts from which to build the Delta Flier.
Timo Saloniemi
Well, the MSD is canon, isn't it?
OK, so there's a something rather than an anything there 
It's such a shame that they didn't launch the Delta Flyer from there (that would have solved the variable size shutlebay issue too). All it would have taken is a few lines of dialogue about reconfiguring the auxillary shuttlecraft, and made so much more sense than building an entire spaceship from scratch!
Ah, well...
It's such a shame that they didn't launch the Delta Flyer from there (that would have solved the variable size shutlebay issue too). All it would have taken is a few lines of dialogue about reconfiguring the auxillary shuttlecraft, and made so much more sense than building an entire spaceship from scratch!
Ah, well...
A CGI of its launch was made but never used. It used to be on the Web, but it's not on YouTube now, at least. I don't know if it's on one of the DVDs. But we do have this:
The source is the comprehensive Aeroshuttle page of Janet's Star Trek Voyager:
http://www.star-trek-voyager.net/ship4/voyship_all9.htm
Memory Alpha:
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Aeroshuttle
And, of course, I made a schematic:
http://lcars24.com/schem49.html
The source is the comprehensive Aeroshuttle page of Janet's Star Trek Voyager:
http://www.star-trek-voyager.net/ship4/voyship_all9.htm
Memory Alpha:
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Aeroshuttle
And, of course, I made a schematic:
http://lcars24.com/schem49.html
That's it. Thanks. I wasn't patient enough looking for it today.
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